Recent content by mathstudent99

There's a lot of differences between liberal arts colleges. Top 5 liberal arts colleges like Williams regularly place students into top physics PhD programs. However, many liberal arts colleges like St. John's probably do not offer a sufficient background in physics. You can find where Harvard...

I took a number of math classes at the University of Minnesota during high school before going to MIT. The math classes at the University of Minnesota were definitely easier than ones at MIT but some of them (5615-6H honors analysis and 5285-6H honors algebra) were still fairly challenging so...

As I mentioned upthread I received an accepted from the Symplectic Embeddings on 2/26. My impression is that admissions probably were done on the group level so other groups may be very different. The guy in charge of the Symplectic Embeddings group seemed quite keen on sending out acceptances...

I don't really understand how REUs set their application deadlines. For math most seem to be in early February but many are considerably later than that. The University of Washington's application deadline is April 1st which seems so late that all other offers would have had to be accepted...

Freshmen at a top 5 university. I'm majoring in math and had taken a bunch of math classes (2 semesters of analysis and algebra and 1 semester of differential geometry) in high school at a large research university. Rejected from Emory 2/4. Rejected (shortlisted) from Duluth 2/9. Accepted at...